Another way you can experiment with midi plugins is to use Plogue Bidule, Patchworks or some other plugin chainer plugin. They all provide the ability to host VSTi/AU midi plugins inside them and do what the DAW's and VEP currently don't. So you can for example, put PlogueBIdule into the instrument slot on each channel of VEP and then put your actual instrument inside it along with whatever chain of MIDI plugins you want in front of it... And it will work. But in my testing I have found PlogueBidule does not calculate and report latency back to the host, they conciously chose not to. BlueCatAudio's patchworks does handle plugin delay compensation and reports it to the host, but it crashed on me when I tried to use it inside VEP. Also, when you use this approach, while it works, I also lose all the automatic stuff VEP normally does when hosting VIPro, because ViPro is hidden inside the PlogueBidule plugin. So its less then ideal, but it can definitely be done. would be a lot better if VEP just gave us some midfx slots in a manner similar as LPX.